Hinrich had 14 points and P.J. Brown and reserve Chris Duhon
each had 11 for Chicago, which has won three straight on the
road and seven of eight overall.

The Bulls trailed 87-86 when Deng drove to the basket and
pitched out to Hinrich, whose 18-foot jumper from the corner
gave Chicago a one-point lead with 26 seconds remaining.

"I think our confidence level coming down the stretch of games
has grown a lot since early in the year," Hinrich said.

"The last three games we haven't necessarily played well," Bulls
coach Scott Skiles said. "You just have to find a way to win
them and we did."

After Andre Iguodala failed to hit the rim on a jump shot from
the top of the key, the Bulls inbounded the ball and Adrian
Griffin was fouled on a layup attempt.

"That first jumper I got a good look at and just rushed it and
it just came out wrong," Iguodala said.

On a scramble after Griffin missed both free throws, the
referees gave Philadelphia a timeout with 2.1 ticks on the
clock.

"I looked back and I actually thought the referee called a
travel," said Sixers point guard Andre Miller, who was headed up
court with the ball for an attempted game winner. "Somebody
called timeout. That is what the coach said to do - make or
miss. Whoever called timeout did their job."

However Iguodala missed an off-balance 3-pointer at the buzzer
to give the Bulls their fourth straight win.

"It was tough to get the shot in from that position," Iguodala
said. "It was hard to run the play that we set up because we
didn't know where the ball was going to be at."

Ben Wallace finished with 10 points, 11 rebounds and eight
assists, including one to Deng with 4:33 left that tied the
game, 84-84, for the first time since the score was knotted at
2-2.

"I thought Ben Wallace was outstanding again tonight," Skiles
said.

Deng gave Chicago its first lead of the game 36 seconds later on
a layup off a dish from Duhon.

"I struggled in the first-half," said Deng, who scored 16 of his
total after halftime. "I had it going on in the second-half.
The guys did a good job finding me. We just found a way in the
second-half to get the win."

"Obviously, we controlled the game for pretty much the whole
time," Sixers coach Maurice Cheeks said. "But as the Chicago
Bulls do, they continued to play and play, and made shots down
the end."

Chicago hammered Philadelphia on the boards, outrebounding them
45-30, including a 20-4 advantage on the offensive glass.

"I think rebounding is something we have to talk about and go
over again because it's been a factor the last several nights,"
Cheeks said. "I thought the first half of the game where they
rebounded the ball on the foul line a couple times, we had two
big guys going for the ball and the ball ended up in their
hands. Rebounding was certainly a factor in this loss."

Iguodala scored 19 points, grabbed five rebounds and handed out
six assists, including an ally-oop to Samuel Dalembert with 2:14
left that gave the Sixers their last lead at 87-86.

"It's frustrating because we have to pull out games like this,"
Iguodala said. "You have to bounce as fast as possible. It's
like when you counterpunch, when you get hit you've got to come
back quicker."

Willie Green had 16 points and Dalembert added 15 on 7-of-7
shooting from the field for Philadelphia, which has lost two
straight following a seven-game winning streak.